Ann B. Davis would go onto play housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch.

This episode takes place in 1867 as that was the year that the United States purchased Alaska from Russia.

Vasily: (to Flint) On your feet! A peasant does not sit in the presence of the Countess. I warn you, Countess, the American does not know his place.

Flint: (about Wooster and Hawks) These are the only two peasants we have on the train.

Vasily: You cannot refuse the request of Countess Baranof.
Adams: Well, you're a little too late. I just did.

Countess: (to Vasily) You have a talent for bringing the worst out in people.

Flint: You want me to believe you can buy the U.S. Senate?
Countess: That's the rumor in Washington and I just came from there.

Countess: What gave you the impression I was interested in you?
Foster: The best reason in the world--you're a man and I'm a woman.
Countess: That's one thing I wish you were--a man.

William H. Seward was the United States Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians for the sum of $7 million in 1867. The purchase was called "Seward's Folly" and "Seward's Icebox" at the time by its opponents.